Word: ashburns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ASHBURN PLACE-Margaret Flint-Dodd, Mead...
...Ashburn farm near the village of Parkston, Me., there was a sloping stretch of ground to which the Ashburns retired when they wanted to think things over. Three generations of shrewd, kindly old Maine farmers had pondered there before Charlie Ashburn, but few of them faced such problems as beset homely, bald-headed Charlie. Charlie was in love with a vivacious college girl named Marian Parks. His older married brother Morris also loved her. Marian, although she was friendly with both, loved neither. Morris wife complicated things by making shameless love to high-minded, honest Charlie who became her lover...
...learned of her good fortune on her 44th birthday and on her 22nd wedding anniversary. Born in Old Town, Me., she had previously written for local newspapers. After graduation from the University of Maine, she married a classmate and went South with him to make their home. The Old Ashburn Place was written at night and during occasional free hours, took four years to complete. Planning to use her windfall to educate her children, Mrs. Jacobs visited Manhattan and Maine briefly, returned to Bay St. Louis, promptly set to work on another novel...
...writer as well. She ground out short stories. They were all rejected. In late-at-night, snatched moments over four years she slowly tapped out a novel. It was about a Maine farm, the kind of country she had grown up in. She called it The Old Ashburn Place. One of her daughters read a few pages, did not like it much. Her husband was no hand for fiction anyway, preferred the Bible. But when the book was finished, off she sent it to Pictorial Review, where it will begin to appear serially next...
...Hewitt (first aviator to fly the Irish Sea-1912) bought two eggs and two skins, for a total of $7,245, and these added to his previous collections made him in turn the world's greatest private Great Auk collector. The Rev. Francis Charles Robert Jourdain, Vicar of Ashburn-cum-Mapleton, president of the British Oölogists Union, also bought two eggs...